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I wish I had written this Internet Glossary. So good. The Toast adds some additional translations to common Internet slang: “You need to see” translates to“here is a video you’ll forget in two minutes”. “!”=”I have space for one character in this RT”. “FTW”=”I agree with this”. “THIS“=”I Have Nothing to Add”. [The Toast]

Paddy Johnson has filed another artnet News review. It is titled “Richard Prince Sucks.” Click through to find out what she thinks of Richard Prince. [artnet News]

A new study by the Pew Foundation finds that Buzzfeed is trusted less than ThinkProgress, Sean Hannity Show, Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh. [PewResearch]

The Founder and Executive Director of Art21, Susan Sollins, passed away last week. Hyperallergic has reported a nice overview of her influence and vision. [Hyperallergic]

Rhizome is building a tool that will help archive facebook conversations. Dragan Espenschied, Rhizome’s digital conservator, speaks to the New York Times. [The New York Times]

In news of the ever-shifting art blogosphere: Just months after scooping up the staff of Artinfo because Louise BLOUIN wasn’t paying anybody (she’s currently embroiled in lawsuits and small claims court filings filed by her former contractors), artnet News has already lost one of its best assets. Ben Sutton is now at Hyperallergic. One wonders if this has to do with Artnet’s tabloid–like news sensibility. (Also, it appears they’ve made a font change). This means Hyperallergic is expanding, which is good news for those of us who are sick to death of Gallerist NY voice.

An Edward Snowden documentary, Citizenfour, was slipped quietly into the New York Film Festival. Apparently, Snowden contacted the filmmaker Laura Poitras soon before making the leaks because of her previous films My Country, My Country, and The Oath. [Hyperallergic]

Hoverboards are real, and they are not two blowdriers attached to the bottom of a skateboard. They’re using magnets, and you have to hover over a metal floor. No, you can’t have one, they’re $10,000. [The Verge]

Not art-related, but what the hell: Renée Zellweger looks like an entirely different person. [Gawker]

Guess who’s got a Jayson Musson’s Coogi painting for sale? We do, and you have two more days to get it. [Paddle8]

Artist and jogger—but mostly artist—Kate Steciw found a skeleton decked out in Brooklyn Nets gear in Prospect Park. It was surrounded by sentimental wall art and American flags, like some funeral scene for a suburban Nets lover. Crime scene or dumb art? Probably dumb art. But we wonder why all the reblogs are missing out on the fact that this weird art scene wasn’t found just by a “random jogger,” but an artist. C’mon y’all! [Gawker]

Turtle cruelty alert! The barbaric Aspen Art Museum will have a special guest at their opening: turtles, many of them, carrying around iPads on their shells. Opponents claim their backs are too sensitive to endure the weight of the iPads. [The Denver Post]

The Wikimedia Foundation is in a legal fight with a photographer who says that he owns the copyright to a “selfie” that a monkey took with his camera. According to Wikimedia, since the monkey pressed the shutter, the monkey technically owns it. Yes, this is silly, but it actually seems like this could have far-reaching impact on other photographers; after all, Gregory Crewdson, for one, doesn’t press the shutter for any of his photographs. [Slate]

Run free, Edward Snowden—at least for a few more years. The former NSA contractor has been granted a three-year residence permit in Russia. [Russian Times]

We’ll miss Isaac Lyles at Derek Eller Gallery—he was the gallery’s associate director—but we’ll visit him at Tilton Gallery uptown, where he will act as their new director. [Artnews]

Oh man. Ben Davis really doesn’t like the Christopher Williams photo show at MoMA which he says is “canned and over-mannered, an academicized version of that caricature of pedantic indie-rock cool, ‘It’s so obscure, you’d never get it….” Ouch. [Artnet]

An image of brawling Ukrainian parliament members looks like a Renaissance painting, apparently because it follows the golden ratio. [@jamesharveytm Via. Twitter]

This Weird Al Yankovic revival is getting out of hand. Fans are petitioning for him to play at next year’s Super Bowl. Why don’t we just put Adam Sandler, Flight of the Conchords, and Tenacious D together on stage at the Super Bowl and get this parody-music revival over with once and for all. [CNET]

Blouin Artinfo’s been down the past few days. Now, if you try and visit the site, you get redirected to their blog “In the Air” with a banner on top that reads “ The main Blouin Artinfo site is undergoing technical upgrades and will return shortly.” What could Louise Blouin have in store? [Blouin Artinfo]

This is a movie we want to see:

so @jerrysaltz just agreed to be in my buddy cop art movie ‘Critics’ in which we’ll use our height disparity to great comedic effect.

Jerry Saltz names “Coming Together: Surviving Sandy” the best show of the year– with NO MENTION of the wave of artist evictions which made the show possible. Roberta Smith also gave the show a glowing review, because it celebrated community. We have been ripping our hair out at the office. More on this soon. [New York Magazine, New York Times]

Now’s a good moment to immerse the public in Russian performance art, what with Pussy Riot, Voina, and Petr Pavlensky (the balls-nailer) making headlines and being charged as criminals. In its current conference, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture hopes to educate people about the full history and scope of the culture. “What’s frustrating for a lot of practitioners in Moscow is that they feel like they’re shouting into a vacuum,” founder Dasha Zhukova tells Artinfo, “because what gets reported on are the negative things rather than the steps that people are taking to develop culture and society.” [Artinfo]

Criticism makes the world better! Saturday Night Live finally pulled its head out of its ass and is taking steps to hire a black female performer. Let’s hope the jokes get a little less bro-y. [New York Times]

Net artists, here is a Secret Santa for you. Sign up now for GIF Wrapping to participate in a Secret Santa for GIFS for digital artists (gifts in boxes pictured above). Check out last year’s to see what you’re up against. [ANIMAL]

William Kentridge has thoughts about Nelson Mandela. That’s not exactly news, but we’re seizing the art hook since we haven’t mentioned anything about his death. Seems wrong. [TAN]

Expect to learn about a lot of great art from Baltimore in the year ahead. The Contemporary Museum just reopened and appointed Deanna Haggag as its new director; having been on the greater Baltimore tour with her last year, we know she’ll make a great ambassador. [Hyperallergic]

VICE covers the coke sales at Art Basel. As usual, it was successful. “Basel is awesome,” says a drug dealer. [VICE]

9.5 Theses on Art and Class, by Ben Davis, editor of Artinfo, is both victim to and substantiated by Davis’s adamant worldview. Beginning with the Marxist-centric essays of the early chapters then expanding to more general issues facing the art world, the text saves itself from being an open-ended musing by framing each subject within its relationship to class ideology. This same ideology, however, leads him make some less than irrefutable claims.

The Southern District of New York, in an opinion written by Judge J. Paul Oetken, has dismissed a claim for defamation by Peter Paul Biro against Art F City’s Paddy Johnson. The blog post cited in Biro’s complaint had quoted passages from a David Grann article originally published in the New Yorker.

#ArtsTech announces the #ArtsTech Unconference, to be held on April 27th. It’s not a typical conference: anyone can submit ideas for panels, workshops, and talks. Unheard of ideas by underdogs, we understand, would be more than welcome. And if your idea becomes a Featured Session, you’ll get free passes to the event. Woo! [ArtsTech]

Massimiliano Gioni talks to ArtInfo UK about curating the Venice Biennale. Apparently, outsider artists will be shown alongside established artists. Gioni cites Roberta Smith as an influence, an awful large feather for any critic’s hat. [ArtInfo]

Hyperallergic Editor-In-Chief Hrag Vartanian said he likes invisible history Danh Vo over Twitter last night. We disagree about the merit of this work, at least in respect to We The People. Here’s why. [Art F City]

Time Out’s Chicago edition will cease print publication. Staffers were told that print publication would cease beginning in April and most of the company’s 60 employees will lose their jobs. [Time Out Chicago]

AFC friend Edward Champion (Ed Rants), will walk 3,000 miles from Brooklyn to San Francisco, writing dispatches as he goes. The project will culminate in an oral history radio narrative. It’s gonna take him 6 months, so he’s fundraising for the project. Help him out. I think this is going to be a great project. [indigogo]

We missed Justin Lieberman’s talk at Paper Monument last night and are now filled with feelings of self-loathing for doing so. Read his account of the best art assignment ever. [Paper Monument]

John Hockenberry, Jim VandeHei, Michael Wolff debate “Good Riddance to Mainstream Media” against Katrina vanden Heuvel, David Carr, and Phil Bronstein. This may not have been the groundbreaking internet video of 2011, but I thought about it often while reading this year’s (albeit art) internet highlights.

The day’s only half way through, which means the AFC office has taken to placing bets on what the rest of today’s Halloween content will look like on the art interwebs. Some headlines we consider likely from our favorite art publishers.